Talodi language

Talodi or Jomang (Ajomang, Gajomang), is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Talodi is spoken in Tasomi and Tata villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Talodi
Jomang
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
EthnicityTalodi
Native speakers
(1,500 cited 1989)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tlo
Glottologtalo1250
ELPTalodi
Talodi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Grammar

Noun Classes

As most languages of the Talodi Family, it uses noun classes to indicate if the word is in the singular or a plural form. There exist both two-class and one-class gender groups, and in all of them mostly consonant prefixes are used as an indicator.[2] Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):

Prefixe(s) Examples (translated to English)
b-/y-, a- bird, old man, person, snake, stick, woman/wife,
b-/g- mountain, tree
w-/m- guts (~g-/l-)
w-/g- cow, gazelle
d̪-/r- dog, fire, horn, liver, mouth, river, road, root, rope, tail, woods, year
d̪-/l- tongue
d-/l- clothing
j-/m- bone, day, egg, finger, fruit, head, heart, star, stone
j-/g- belly, breast, neck, tooth
s-/ ŋ- hand, leg
g-/l- arm, back, branch, ear, feather/wing, guts (~w-/m-), hole, louse, moon/month, nail, nose, old woman, skin, spear, stone, worm
ŋ-/ɲ- child, eye, fish
b- rain, smoke
m- word/language
ḓ- work
d- dust (~ŋ-)
r- food
l- night
j- cloud, salt, sun
y- thing(s)
g- bark, earth, grass, meat (~ø-), name, sand, sky, wind
ŋ- blood, dust (~d-), fat, water
ø- meat (~g-)

References
  1. Talodi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Schadeberg, Thilo Christian (1981). A Survey of Kordofanian: The Talodi Group. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. p. 175.


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